Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

Weaveworld [First American Printing]

Barker, Clive · 1987

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

New York Poseidon Press First American Edition pp. 584. Thick octavo. Publisher's quarter navy-blue cloth over like paper-covered boards, title and decoration stamped in gilt to the spine. Trifle edgewear else, fine. Contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unm...

Narn I Chin Hurin: The Tale of the Children of Hurin

Tolkien, J.R.R.; Christopher Tolkien (Ed.); Alan Lee (Illust.) · 2007

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

London HarperCollins Publishers First Edition pp. 313. Royal octavo. Navy-blue boards, title stamped in gilt to spine. Beautifully illustrated with colour plates, and one large colour fold-out map affixed to the rear matter. Near fine condition in like dust jacket.

Hobbitus Ille: Avt Illvc Atqve Rvrsvs Retrorsvm ; The Hobbit Translated into Latin

Tolkien, J.R.R.; Mark Walker (Trans.) · 2012

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

New York HarperCollins First Edition pp. cccxix [319]. Small octavo. Brown boards with gilt lettering to the spine; map endpapers. No detectable flaws; as new housed in its original, unclipped, illustrated dustjacket. As New

See the Kid Run

Ottum, Bob (1925-1986) · 1978

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York Simon & Schuster First Edition, First Printing pp. 288. Octavo. Quarter-black cloth over salmon boards w/white lettering to the spine. Lightest bumping to spine ends, charming personal bookplate affixed to the ffep, contents clean and unmarked with firm, sound binding...

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again ; Illustrated by the Author

Tolkien, J.R.R. (1892-1973) · 0

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Boston Houghton Mifflin Company pp. 317, [2]. Square 8vo. Bound in full textured green "leatherette" blocked in gilt, and red with like lettering to the spine; marbled edges, green endpapers. Illustatted with full-page colour plates by Tolkien, and various in-text illustration...

The Cosmozoids

Tralins, Robert · 1969

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York Tower Publications pp. 143. 16mo. Illustrated card covers, maroon edges. Light rubbinb to covers, small loss to the upper-margin of the first leaf, else, very good. When is a man not a man? When his mind and body have been invaded by the Cosmozoids...!

Glory Road

Heinlen, Robert · 1963

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Garden City, New York G. P. Putnam's Sons Book Club Edition pp. [1-10], 11-288. 8vo. Black paper boards with green lettering to the spine, and front board. Light bumping to spine ends, tips, contents without blemish; very good and housed in its very good lightly-worn dustjacke...

The Great Explosion: A Science Fiction Novel

Russell, Eric Frank · 1962

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York Torquil Books | Dodd, Mead & Company Book Club Edition pp. 187. 8vo. Light-gray boards with red lettering to the spine, publisher's topstain, untrimmed edge. Very light bump to spine ends, contents without blemish; near fine and housed in its original, strikingly-illu...

The Egg Shaped Thing

Hodder-Williams, Christopher · 1967

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York G. P. Putnam's Sons Book Club Edition pp. 252. 8vo. Bright yellow, pebbled, boards with black lettering to the spine, publisher's yellow topstain, untrimmed edge. Near fine, contents equally without blemish; fine and housed in its original, illustrated, unclipped, dus...

The Dark Side

Knight, Damon (Ed.), et al. · 1965

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc. Book Club Edition pp. xi, 241. 8vo. Light gray paper boards with lilac lettering to the spine, publisher's lilac topstain; untrimmed foredge. Very light bumps to spine ends, contents clean and unmarked; very good+ and housed in i...

Unwise Child

Garrett, Randall (1927-1987) · 1962

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc. Book Club Edition pp. 215. 8vo. Light green paper boards with black lettering to the spine, publisher's topstain; untrimmed foredge. Very light wear, faint spotting to boards, contents clean and unmarked; very good+ and housed in...

The Ant Men

North, Eric [pseudonym for Bernard Cronin]; Cecile Matschat (Ed.); Carl Carmer (Ed.) · 1960

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

New York Holt, Rinehart & Winston Second Printing pp. vii, 216. 8vo. Publisher's original terracotta cloth over boards with black lettering to the spine, and front board, untrimmed edges. Extremities exceptionally well-preserved, contents equally without blemish with clean, an...

Expedition to Earth: Eleven Stories by the Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey ; [With a New Preface by the Author]

Clarke, Arthur C. · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

New York Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. pp. viii, 181. 8vo. Publisher's quarter navy-blue cloth over olive-green paper boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Extremities exceptionally well-preserved, contents equally without blemish with firm, sound binding; fine and housed i...

Psychogeist

Davies, L.P. [Leslie Purnell] (1914-1988) · 1967

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Garden City, New York Doubleday Book Club Edition pp. 181. 8vo. Textured black boards with white lettering to the spine, untrimmed page edges. No flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish; near fine and housed in its original strikingly illustrated, unclipped,...

Unifinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth

Tolkien, J.R.R. (1892-1973); Christopher Tolkien (Intro., Maps, Commentary, Index, etc.) · 1980

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Boston Houghton Mifflin Company Book Club Edition pp. xxiv, 483. 8vo. Quarter-brown spine over mustard-yellow boards with red lettering and ornamentation to the spine; map endpaper. Black-and-white maps, charts, etc. Lightest edgewear, contents without blemish with bright, cle...

The World's Greatest Monster Quiz ["Shockingly Illustrated!]

Carlinsky, Dan; Edwin Goodgold · 1975

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York Berkley Publishing Corp. Second Printing pp. 122. 16mo. Pictorial covers. Richly illustrated with a variety of striking photographs, games, illustrations, etc. Remarkably well-preserved; near fine. "For the connoisseur of the creepy and the gourmet of the ghoulish, th...

Dolores Claiborne [First Edition, First Printing]

King, Stephen · 1993

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York Viking First Edition, First Printing pp. 305. 8vo. Quarter black cloth over like boards with gilt-and-red lettering to the spine, King's initials "SK" emobbosed in lower-right margin of the front boards in red, untrimmed page edges, bright yellow endpapers. Extremitie...

Star Wars: Ultimate Library Box Set for Early Readers (Twenty Volumes in Slipcase]

Saunders, Tori; Catherine Beecroft, Simon; Hibbert, Clare; Buller, Laura; Kindersley, Dorling; Kent Lindsay; Windham, Ryder; Last, Shari; Harper, Benjamin; Kosara, et al. · 2015

$92.00 (€83.47 | £69.64 | ¥14,691)

United Kingdom Penguin Random House | Dorling Kindersley Limited (DK Books) First Edition, First Printing Various paginations. 8vo's., measuring 9" x 6". Illustrated covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; as new, still housed in publisher's original shrink-wrap. As new.

Alien Bedtime Stories [SIGNED]

Cameron, Grant · 2015

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

N.P. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform First Edition pp. 324. 8vo. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white photographs. Bright, clean, and unmarked. SIGNED, and inscribed by the author to the title page. This book contains some of the most popular UFO stories from the file...

The Outlandish Companion

Gabaldon, Diana · 1999

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York Delacorte Press First Edition, First Printing pp. xxix, 577. Thick Royal 8vo. Publisher's black boards, gilt lettering to the spine, map endpapers. Black-and-white illustrations, maps, charts, tables throughout. Light bump to the tail of spine, else, near fine. Conten...